Building environing conditions for symmathesy in a networked project.
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This paper aims to identify some of the “environing conditions” (Dewey 1902, also cf. 1938) discovered to enable teachers and students from a predominantly teacher-centered, non-digital learning environment to be “willing” (Wood 1998[1986], p. 175) to learn from the new experience of a networked seminar. This is to say, willing to view learning as an exercise in symmathesy (Bateson 2015): in a “learning together” that encompasses the situation, person, tools, goals, and epistemologies and restores healthy “rigor” (Schön 1985) to technical rationality by making it situationally dialogic and actionable in the face of complexity and uncertainty. Emphasis here is on coming to networked learning for the first time: a timely issue as it continues to be observed that the potential and experience of networked learning remains limited to a minority of courses across the globe. Although key literature in the field has established an epistemology of practice relevant in even diverse institutional... contexts, existing literature lacks the “outing” of some of the difficulties faced by teachers and students. Therefore, through reflective qualitative inquiry, we engage in critical evaluation of our dialogic praxis, roles, and paradigms of growth that frames the initial problem of facing indeterminacy as an opportunity for mutual learning that embraces “real life” complexity as it moves towards strengths and away from weaknesses. This paper is thus not only relevant to “transitional” classrooms but can be further seen to be of benefit in an increasingly automatized, complex, uncertain digital landscape.
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Анали Филолошког факултета, 2020, 32, 2, 419-448Publisher:
- Београд : Филолошки факултет
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Filološki fakultet / Faculty of PhilologyTY - JOUR AU - Goetz, Greta AU - Jovanović, Ana S. PY - 2020 UR - https://repff.fil.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1333 AB - This paper aims to identify some of the “environing conditions” (Dewey 1902, also cf. 1938) discovered to enable teachers and students from a predominantly teacher-centered, non-digital learning environment to be “willing” (Wood 1998[1986], p. 175) to learn from the new experience of a networked seminar. This is to say, willing to view learning as an exercise in symmathesy (Bateson 2015): in a “learning together” that encompasses the situation, person, tools, goals, and epistemologies and restores healthy “rigor” (Schön 1985) to technical rationality by making it situationally dialogic and actionable in the face of complexity and uncertainty. Emphasis here is on coming to networked learning for the first time: a timely issue as it continues to be observed that the potential and experience of networked learning remains limited to a minority of courses across the globe. Although key literature in the field has established an epistemology of practice relevant in even diverse institutional contexts, existing literature lacks the “outing” of some of the difficulties faced by teachers and students. Therefore, through reflective qualitative inquiry, we engage in critical evaluation of our dialogic praxis, roles, and paradigms of growth that frames the initial problem of facing indeterminacy as an opportunity for mutual learning that embraces “real life” complexity as it moves towards strengths and away from weaknesses. This paper is thus not only relevant to “transitional” classrooms but can be further seen to be of benefit in an increasingly automatized, complex, uncertain digital landscape. PB - Београд : Филолошки факултет T2 - Анали Филолошког факултета T1 - Building environing conditions for symmathesy in a networked project. EP - 448 IS - 2 SP - 419 VL - 32 DO - 10.18485/analiff.2020.32.2.22 UR - conv_2748 ER -
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Goetz, G.,& Jovanović, A. S.. (2020). Building environing conditions for symmathesy in a networked project.. in Анали Филолошког факултета Београд : Филолошки факултет., 32(2), 419-448. https://doi.org/10.18485/analiff.2020.32.2.22 conv_2748
Goetz G, Jovanović AS. Building environing conditions for symmathesy in a networked project.. in Анали Филолошког факултета. 2020;32(2):419-448. doi:10.18485/analiff.2020.32.2.22 conv_2748 .
Goetz, Greta, Jovanović, Ana S., "Building environing conditions for symmathesy in a networked project." in Анали Филолошког факултета, 32, no. 2 (2020):419-448, https://doi.org/10.18485/analiff.2020.32.2.22 ., conv_2748 .